Saul Perlmutter
 Saul Perlmutter | |
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 Saul Perlmutter durin the Nobel week 2011 | |
| Born | 22 September 1959 Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, U.S. |
| Residence | Unitit States |
| Naitionality | American |
| Alma mater | Harvard (AB) UC Berkeley (PhD) |
| Kent for | Acceleratin universe / Dark energy |
| Hauf-marrae(s) | Laura Nelson (1 child) |
| Awairds | Ernest Orlando Lawrence Awaird (2002) Shaw Prize in Astronomy (2006) Gruber Prize in Cosmology (2007) Nobel Prize in Pheesics (2011) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Pheesics |
| Institutions | UC Berkeley/LBNL |
| Doctoral advisor | Richard A. Muller[1] |
Saul Perlmutter (born September 22, 1959) is an American astropheesicist at the Lawrence Berkeley Naitional Laboratory an a professor o pheesics at the Varsity o Californie, Berkeley. He is a member o the American Academy o Airts & Sciences, an wis electit a Fellae o the American Association for the Advancement o Science in 2003. He is an aa member o the Naitional Academy o Sciences. Perlmutter shared baith the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy an the 2011 Nobel Prize in Pheesics wi Brian P. Schmidt an Adam Riess for providin evidence that the expansion o the universe is acceleratin.
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ Goldhaber, Gerson. "The Acceleration of the Expansion of the Universe: A Brief Early History of the Supernova Cosmology Project (SCP)". Proceedings of the 8th UCLA Dark Matter Symposium. Marina del Rey. arXiv:0907.3526. Bibcode:2009AIPC.1166...53G. doi:10.1063/1.3232196.
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